Green House

After almost 10 years we are finally putting up our big 30' x 96' green house. We plan on making 32, 4' x 8' raised beds inside for our new vegetable growing enterprise that we started this year with several friends and neighbors. It's an expansion of last years farm stand. We've officially started a C.S.A. I wish the green house was already up and ready but, the cold wet weather has set us back a bit. We aren't the only ones set back though, even down mid-state, farmers were way laid with a late season blast of snow at the beginning of the week.

Setting up the hoops was the easy part. Attaching the base boards is a slow tedious process. The original owner of this green house had used pipes driven down into the ground with which to anchor the hoops. In our sandy and rock infested soil they are just about impossible to drive strait. So this time I cut up metal T-stakes and drove them in for anchors. They drove real nice but, are tough to drill. I need to drill them in order to bolt them to the hoops, as well as the base boards. My normal drill bits hardly penetrated the metal so I tried a 5/16 cobalt bit and it cuts it pretty good, though they are easy to break. I've broken three so far.

After today we almost have all the boards fastened to the left side. We are hoping to get the right side done tomorrow.

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Shadow

Our little black lamb got abandoned by his mother so we are raising him in the house. He's the cutest thing. He has quickly won over our hearts and he has become our new pet. We named him Shadow, first for his pure black coat and secondly for the fact that he follows Kelli around like he is her shadow.

Kelli can walk anywhere around the place and he sticks to her like glue. It's really funny to see. If she does happen to get a little ahead of him he tears around until he gets right in step with her. I wish the dogs were so obedient.

Here Shadow is inspecting today's work on the green house seeing if he can lend a helpful hand,,,well I mean hoof. Actually he probably was looking for something to taste. He seems to enjoy himself nibbling on all my tools and parts.